Writer's Block

Something that I've been reading about on numerous websites is the issue of writer's block. It's a problem I've never had. (Overflow and focus would be more my issue.) I think this is because of my background in PR. (See previous post for the downfall of this training!)

(Knock on wood. (KOW) No, jump up and down on the maple floors, rub the pine shelving, shake the birch desk. Whatever preventative power wood has to mollify the fates, I am all over it.)

So, while writing to deadlines has created an editorial moron of me, it has also created someone who can write anytime and pretty much anywhere. Now, that doesn't mean that everything written is going to be pretty, but I've not had the experience of staring at a screen and not been able to get going somehow. (KOW)

An immutable deadline does that for you. That and the desire to collect a paycheque.

Usually, when a project looms a lead will come to me and the rest follows. It's tougher when a lead doesn't present itself. On those occasions, I just start typing. It primes the pump and words flow to greater or lesser volume.

What do you do to overcome writer's block?

I'd love to hear from you,
Colleen